ID

FBW000591      Newsreel

Country / Year

USA, 1945

Original Title

Staff Film Report // No. 57 /// [Part 1: Activities in European Theatre of Operations. Kiel]

Other Title(s)

Combat Bulletin // #57 /// [Part 1: Activities in European Theatre of Operations. Kiel]

Produced by

US Army Signal Corps

Staff

Camera: [?]

Format

35mm/sw/1:1,37

Dates

- 00 00.1945: Shooting period

Abstract

Shows sunken German ships in the Kiel Harbor; the "Europa" at Bremerhaven, a midget German submarine at Copenhagen. Scenes of the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp. DPs are fed and treated. POW's remove dead DPs. Buildings are burned to fight disease.

Subject Terms

1940-1949; Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp); Displaced persons; Prisoners of war; Control of epidemics; US Army

Holdings

- National Archives, Washington, DC; 35mm; 111 SFR 57; 1. von 8 Filmen, zus. 21'

Materials

- National Archives, Washington, DC; Protokoll

Bibliography

- Fox, Stuart: Jewish Films in the United States. New York, NY: K.G. Hall, 1976
- Gellert, Charles Lawrence: The Holocaust, Israel, and the Jews: Motion Pictures in the National Archives. Washington, DC: National Archives Trust Fund Board / National Archives and Records Administration, 1989

Contents (detailed)

- Part 1: Shows sunken German ships in the Kiel Harbor; the "Europa" at Bremerhaven, a midget German submarine at Copenhagen. Scenes of the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp. DPs are fed and treated. POW's remove dead DPs. Buildings are burned to fight disease
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- Part 2: Shows the use of a rocket booster to speed falling bombs
- Part 3: Shows camouflaged German pillboxes in Cortina
- Part 4 (COMBAT BULLETIN only): Italians learn land mine removal and clear their farms
- Part 4 (STAFF REPORT only): Describes the LCS(L)3 and demonstrates its fire power
- Part 5 (COMBAT BULLETIN only): Duplicates STAFF FILM REPORT #55, part 3
- Part 5 (STAFF REPORT only): B-24's drop radio-controlled azon bombs on Thailand and (Reel 2) the Palau Islands. Shows close-ups of a plane suffering a direct hit
- Part 6 (COMBAT BULLETIN only): A jungle rescue team treats a pilot in Burma, clears a helicopter landing area, and evacuates the flyer
- Part 6 (COMBAT BULLETIN part 7, reel 3): In the Philippines, Nimitz and MacArthur meet in Manila (May 15); Gen. Kenney meets Mexican pilots. Shows many scenes of captured Japanese airplanes (STAFF REPORT part 7)
- Part 8: Naha, Okinawa, is shelled and 6th Marines capture Sugar Loaf Hill and the city. Troops and tanks attack caves and pillboxes with various weapons and explosives. Artillery and planes bombard positions. Shows Gen. Gieger